Essential Knowledge Indira Gandhi • Closer relationship between India and the Soviet Union during the Cold War • Developed nuclear program Margaret Thatcher • British prime minister • Free trade and less government regulation of business • Close relationship with United States and U.S. foreign policy • Assertion of United Kingdom’s military power Mikhail Gorbachev • Glasnost and perestroika • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Last president of Soviet Union Deng Xiaoping • Reformed Communist China’s economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth • Continued communist control of government

Lesson Plans World History II 13a: Collapse of Communism

Standard WH II: Lesson Plans World History II 13a-The student will demonstrate knowledge of major events in the second half of the twentieth century by

Objectives: Explaining key events of the Cold War, including the competition between the American and Soviet economic and political systems and the causes of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Note: I tend to break SOL 13a into two parts. One part is on the causes of the Cold War. The other is on the causes of the Cold War ending.

Lesson Plans World History II 13a-To analyze the collapse of Communism I put students into groups. They analyze the documents below and complete the questions. Students rotate around to different stations, analyze the documents, and complete the questions.